Why is that? Because photos can't be doctored? Seriously, anyone that believes that the moon landings were a hoax will continue to come up with conspiracy theories and claim falsified evidence. There really is no way to argue with or convince them short of flying them up there for a personal look-see, and of course that would never happen. It's not even worth wasting time on them.

It should be high rez enough to see the leftover junk from the manned landings. If this doesn't shut the moon landing conspiracists up, nothing will.

I appreciate your optimism, but these guys got the backing of a self-proclaimed photographer who doesn't understand how bounce cards work to offer his testimonial. I don't think that group is going anywhere no matter what is found.

They are not going to show you the masonic lodge and the giant space communications array that the aliens built in 1207. Just give it up. You will have to join and become a master mason in order to even see the photos of it, and become worshipful master before you can go there.

Now I need to go kill myself as I have revealed far too much. My brothers will be here shortly to torch the house... hopefully they torch the right one this time.

White isn't a wavelength. They most likely took some or all 7 of the wavelengths and processed them together into this greyscale image.

These sorts of "cameras" don't take normal photographs. They are scientific instruments, and the data has to be heavily processed if they are to be made into useful and appealing images. None of the images from Hubble are how the things it's showing look, they are all false-color, which means the scientists gave each wavelength a color, and processed them together to give a

One looks like a deep dry river bed around Archimedes. WTF is that? It's not shallow like the others (I guess lava flows?). Second, I see a short crater rows. I guess this is from a stream of some disintegrated meteor?

What? The OP was right. Crater rows are from disintegrated meteors (tidal forces, etc.), like Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and hundreds of other real-life examples. What you are talking about, large impacts causing secondary craters, does not happen.

Well, the slashdot effect definitely hit the.tif's site (lroc.sese.asu.edu) for a bit(got to the point where wget lost the connection, and was dial-up speeds before that), but it seems they've mostly recovered! Getting about 2Mbps on the download now.

Librations are small variations in the rotation of the moon, either real ("physical librations") or apparent (the apparent ones - the "geometrical librations" - are caused by variations in the Moon's orbital motion, which is not uniform, and which changes slowly with time).

For a Lunar orbiter, the geometrical librations are irrelevant, and the physical librations are accounted for in the spacecraft ephemeris.

Of course, conspirationists don't RTFA where the first link point you to a high res image of a landing site [skyandtelescope.com].
Now how your trolling has been moderated positive to this point is beyond my understanding....

And so much from NASA. Seriously, NASA releases just about everything, while CHina gives just enough to try and make themselves sound nice. Yet, it is a fraction of what they recover. WHy? Because their space program is a MILITARY system, not a civilian one. For you westerners pushing for us to work with China on space, keep in mind that you are helping on weapon systems that will be pointed at us.

I really do think that it's amazing what the right hardware in the right place can do for increasing our knowledge. The optics on this spacecraft that generated the data, are no larger than an average webcam at ~1.2mm aperture, F/5 focal ratio described as a telescope (6mm f/5 described as a camera lens). Really impressive dataset. I can't wait for the Virtual Moon Atlas to have this dataset available..